dont turn off ZA... i did

[wingnutwill]

Sting,

I wonder if you over-reacted by reformating and reinstalling.

I have had terrible problems that sound eerily like yours, where suddenly I am unable to boot. First impulse was to do what you did, but instead I rebooted in safe mode, and removed every trace of ZA. And Voila, everything worked.

My ISP told me they have many support calls that are caused by ZA, and sent me detailed instructions how to remove it. They went on to say the ZA uninstaller does not remove many of the references in the registry, and leaves a bunch of files that mess thing up too. I found this to be true.

The uninstall instructions can be found in my post here: http://discussions.virtualdr.com/For...ML/049423.html

I have become suspicious that ZA is a worse virus than the viruses it purports to protect us from, as it has caused both instability and unrecoverable crashes for me.

Will




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It doesn't take much talent to be a critic.

[Kento]

For those of you using Black Ice, read the page at the link and then read Steve Gibson's poor review of Black Ice down near the bottom and see if you still want it. Steve really knows his stuff when it comes to internet security. I used to think it was good but not anymore.
http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm

More of Steve's firewall findings here:
http://grc.com/lt/scoreboard.htm


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One day we will have sung our last song, we will have faced our last trial, then we'll meet Christ face to face. Are ya lookin for that day?

[Dala]

My connection problems started not too long after in installed Zonealarm too.
( http://discussions.virtualdr.com/For...ML/046282.html )
I wasn't able to connect, and the few times I was the browser wouldn't work, email checkers, etc. Nothing I did worked hehe. I had turned off Zonealarm, then uninstalled it, then reinstalled it... no good. I got Compuserve to send me a disk so i could reinstall, and that KINDA worked but i still had the connection problems. Funny thing is, a couple days ago I updated ZoneAlarm and haven't had one problem since (now that i said that i'll problably crash...)
I am on dial-up and i haven't had ONE single alert since the update.... and everything seems to be working. I'm not saying Zonealarm WAS my problem, but it's quite a coincidence. Hope i don't get flamed lol.


[This message has been edited by Dala (edited 09-10-2001).]